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I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. (Joni Mitchell)
I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect. View quote
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I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do. View quote
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My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb. View quote
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The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back. View quote
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I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term. View quote
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I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. View quote
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Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists. View quote
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I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them. View quote
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My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn't mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But it's good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable. View quote
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I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar. (Joni Mitchell)
I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords. View quote
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You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life. View quote
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Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at. View quote
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Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about. View quote
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For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews. View quote
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I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later. View quote
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I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. View quote
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We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy. View quote
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I do have this reputation for being a serious person. View quote
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My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words. (Joni Mitchell)
I came upon a child of god, He was walking along the road And I asked him, where are you going And this he told me: "I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band I'm going to camp out on the land, I'm going to try an' get my soul free. View quote
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The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature. View quote
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I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along on one key and I'll drop off a cliff, and suddenly they will go into a whole other key signature. That will drive some people crazy, but that's how my life is. View quote
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I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with Thus Spoke Zarathustra. He gets a bad rap; hes very misunderstood. Hes a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers. View quote
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